Discourse Analysis

_______ is defined as lan­guage in its contexts of use. In considering language in its contexts of use, the concern is also with language above the level of the sentence.

_______ can be defined as the study of language in its contexts of use and above the level of the sentence.

The idea "One text cannot be understood except in relation to other texts which have gone before (and, indeed, which are likely to follow)" shows that discourse is _______

_______ is a set of linguistic choices associated with a particular situation. These situations are usually related to professional activity (the language of teachers, doctors, students, and so forth) or interests (bridge-playing, bird-watching, music-making, and so forth).

Theme is the point of departure of a clause, what the clause is about, while _______ refers to the pattern of themes across a stretch of text.

_______ is a statistical meas­ure of the relative frequency of lexical words and grammatical words in a stretch of text.

With _______, we are concerned with the formal (but at the same time semantic) links between clauses, how an item - a pronoun, a noun or a conjunction - in one clause may refer backwards or forwards to another clause.

A _______ item is a word or phrase, the identity of which can be determined by referring to other parts of the text or the situation.

With _______, a substitute word of phrase is replaced by another, for example, Which book do you want? I'll take the red one. In this example the word book is substituted by one.

"It" is defined as a variation on substitution. It is described by them as ‘substi­tution by zero', that is to say, something is omitted. Where _______ occurs, something is left unsaid, it is true, but, at the same time, it is nevertheless understood.